GC43A:
Agricultural Expansion and Forest Loss in Tropical Regions: Observations, Drivers, Impacts, and Solutions II Posters

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Session ID#: 23284

Session Description:
To feed the 7 billion people on the planet, ~40% of the land surface has been changed into croplands. The tropics remains an important agricultural frontier also experiencing one of the world’s fastest rates of deforestation, which is likely to continue over the next decades given the near doubling of food demand expected by 2050. Beyond the lost carbon and biodiversity, agricultural expansion could have large additional ecosystem and environmental impacts, the extent dependent on the geographical and ecological features of the new cropland. For instance, agricultural expansion is rapidly occurring in the uplands of mainland Southeast Asia. Identifying the spatial heterogeneity of agriculture expansion and deforestation in the tropics, and its underlying drivers and impacts, have significant implications for both forest conservation and sustainable food security. This session invites submissions that address observations, drivers, impacts, and solutions of agricultural expansion and deforestation in the tropics during the 21st century.
Primary Convener:  Eric F Wood, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States
Conveners:  Zhenzhong Zeng, Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States and Anping Chen, Purdue University, Forestry and Natural Resources, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Chairs:  Eric F Wood, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Zhenzhong Zeng, Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States and Anping Chen, Purdue University, Forestry and Natural Resources, West Lafayette, IN, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Zhenzhong Zeng, Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0402 Agricultural systems [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Estimated carbon emission from recent rapid forest loss in Southeast Asia (297183)
Anping Chen1, Zhenzhong Zeng2, Liqing Peng2 and Songlin Fei3, (1)Purdue University, Forestry and Natural Resources, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (2)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)Purdue University, Forestry and Natural Resources, West Lafayette, United States
Oil Palm Expansion in the Brazilian Amazon (2006-2014): Effects of the 2010 Sustainable Oil Palm Production Program (247582)
Elinor Benami, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, United States and Lisa M Curran, Stanford University, Department of Anthropology, Los Altos Hills, CA, United States
Sources of water vapor to economically relevant regions in Amazonia and the effect of deforestation (251111)
Gabrielle Ferreira Pires and Vitor Cunha Fontes, UFV Federal University of Vicosa, Vicosa, Brazil
Forest amount affects soybean productivity in Brazilian agricultural frontier (279237)
Ludmila Rattis1, Paulo M Brando2, Eduardo Queiroz Marques3, Nathane Queiroz4, Divino Vicente Silvério4, Marcia Macedo1 and Michael Thomas Coe1, (1)Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, United States, (2)Yale University, School of the Environment, New Haven, CT, United States, (3)Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso, Noxa Xavantina, Brazil, (4)IPAM Amazon Environmental Research Institute, Brasilia, Brazil

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